Beckhorn Slide

[Neil]

Here's a picture (http://neil.webcentre.ca/outdoor%20pursuits/spotted/IMG_0022.jpg) of the mighty Beckhorn slide. Note the steep section after the top of the slide.

[masshysteria]

It does look like a steep one Neil. Where was that taken from, E.Dix, Spotted or E-town#4?

[Neil]

Near the top of Spotted. It's doable supposedly but the last part is so steep it's a good thing it's in the trees so you have something to hang onto.

[Rusty and the Maniac]

Wow! :drop: My slide climbing ended one day on the other side of the pictured mtn, when I went up what was apparently not a correct slide on Dix. We got to the point that it was way to steep to safely turn around and had to just keep going up. A rock got kicked loose by somebody and somebody else made the comment, "that could be your head," as we're watching this thing bounce and tumble down the slide going faster and faster. Oh, there were some ground water seeps, too. Man, that was straight up scary. Then I got the pleasure of being in the lead on the bushwhack up to the top... I think I still have some scars from that day. We went over to the little peak to the east of Dix and got a great picture, though. Oh yeah, the reason I started off with 'Wow' was because that slide looks pretty close to vertical. You really gonna climb that?

[WalksWithBlackflies]

Here's a picture (http://neil.webcentre.ca/outdoor%20pursuits/spotted/IMG_0022.jpg) of the mighty Beckhorn slide. Note the steep section after the top of the slide.
That slide looks eerily similar to the Whiteface Ski Slide #3, especially with the headwall at the top. Just from the photo it appears Class III/IV, but wouldn't necessarily require rope. I'd be damn sure to bring rock shoes, though. Let me know when you're thinking of tackling this bear.

[adkeditor]

Has anyone climbed this slide? If so, how did you approach it?

[Neil]

Johnnycakes has climbed it. The approach is up the S. Fork of the Boquet. You have to follow the correct branches of the stream as it splits and resplits.

[Neil]

The best part of the trip was the pools of the early part of the Boquet - really neat little flumes and stuff.

That's my take... :)
The pools and flumes on the right hand split (just below the campsite) are amazing. My wife and I were camped there and spent half a day slowly exploring and savouring that stream. I was thinking that if my objective had been the slide then I would have hustled past all that beauty storing it away in my head for a future trip. We went up the branch that leads to the Beckhorn but stopped well below it.

In spite of the thumb's down I'm probably going to do it still because I've looked at it so much from above, from RPR , from Spotted etc. The bushwhack interests me as much, if not more, than the actual slide climb.

It would make for one heck of a ski down it.